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This paper examines global (mature market) and regional (emerging market) spillovers in local emerging stock markets. Tri-variate VAR GARCH(1,1)-in-mean models are estimated for 41 emerging market economies (EMEs) in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. The models capture a range of...
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As the world's largest importer, trading of iron ore occupies a pivotal position in China's international trade. In … futures in October 2013,which has become the world's largest iron ore financial derivatives trading market now. Based on VECM …
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This paper examines the impact of the exchange rate, oil price and gold price on the Kuwaiti stock market using a wavelet analysis, namely, cross-wavelet coherency and partial cross-wavelet coherency. This method is used to test for nonlinear causality and decompose the data into various time...
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We examine the short- and long-run effects of financial liberalization on capital markets. To do so, we construct a new comprehensive chronology of financial liberalization in 28 mature and emerging market economies since 1973. We also construct an algorithm to identify booms and busts in stock...
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We investigate the existence and significance of a cross-sectional relation between idiosyncratic volatility and expected returns at the global level by introducing a global idiosyncratic volatility measure and globally diversified test assets. We find that the portfolios with the highest and...
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directional volatility spillovers between Chinese and world equity markets from February 1996 to December 2009, based on forecast …
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We study the relative diversification potential of American Depository Receipts (ADRs) as compared to the underlying shares as well as the relative diversification potential of closed-end country funds as compared to the foreign market indexes across various economic conditions. We find that,...
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The contagion across capital markets is an important phenomenon in an increasingly integrated financial world. To …
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We examine world stock market comovement for 23 countries over 30-years from 1981 to 2010 -- a period that includes … analysis is based on a generalized factor model that allows for country, regional, and world factors. We show that the commonly … used world Fama French factor model with the world value-weighted portfolio as a proxy for the world factor, has biased …
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Although real integration conceptually plays an important role for the comovement of international equity markets, documenting this link empirically has proven challenging. We construct a new dataset of theory-guided, relevant measures of bilateral trade in final and intermediate goods and...
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